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推

tuī

HSK 4 Character

What 推 means

1. to push
2. to cut
3. to refuse
4. to reject
5. to decline
6. to shirk (responsibility)
7. to put off
8. to delay
9. to push forward
10. to nominate
11. to elect
12. massage

Example sentences

• 推！
  Push!
• 别推！
  Don't push.
• 我在用推特。
  Wǒ zài yòng Tuītè.
  I am using Twitter.
• 您推荐哪个？
  Which do you recommend?
• 你推荐什幺？
  What do you recommend?
• 我们推了车。
  We gave the car a push.

Words starting with 推

• 推荐tuī jiànto recommend
• 推迟tuī chíto postpone; to put off; to defer
• 推广tuī guǎngto extend; to spread; to popularize
• 推辞tuī cíto decline (an appointment, invitation etc)
• 推销tuī xiāoto market; to sell
• 推翻tuī fānto overthrow
• 推理tuī lǐreasoning; inference; to infer
• 推测tuī cèspeculation; to conjecture; to surmise
• 推论tuī lùnto infer; inference; corollary
• 推出tuī chūto push out; to release; to launch
• 推动tuī dòngto push (e.g. for acceptance of a plan); to promote; to give impetus to
• 推进tuī jìnto impel; to carry forward; to push on
• 推开tuī kāito push open (a gate etc); to push away; to reject
• 推行tuī xíngto implement; to carry out; to introduce (a policy, system, reform etc); to promote…
• 推崇tuī chóngto esteem; to think highly of; to accord importance to
• 推断tuī duànto infer; to deduce; to predict
• 推倒tuī dǎoto push over; to overthrow
• 推销员tuī xiāo yuánsales representative; salesperson
• 推介tuī jièto recommend
• 推移tuī yí(of time) to elapse; to pass; (of a situation) to develop; to evolve; to shift; to slide…
• 推车tuī chēcart; trolley; to push a cart
• 推敲tuī qiāoto think over
• 推荐信tuī jiàn xìnrecommendation letter
• 推算tuī suànto calculate; to reckon; to extrapolate (in calculation)

Words containing 推

• 首推shǒu tuīto regard as the foremost; to name as a prime example; to implement for the first time
• 手推车shǒu tuī chētrolley; cart; barrow
• 类推lèi tuīto reason by analogy
• 顺水推舟shùn shuǐ tuī zhōulit. to push the boat with the current; fig. to take advantage of the situation for one's…
• 半推半就bàn tuī bàn jiùhalf willing and half unwilling (idiom); to yield after making a show of resistance
• 以此类推yǐ cǐ lèi tuīand so on; in a similar fashion
• 内推nèi tuī(math) interpolation; (human resources) internal referral…
• 公推gōng tuīelected by acclamation; recommended by all
• 助推zhù tuī(aerospace) to boost; to provide propulsion assistance; (behavioral economics) to nudge…
• 地推dì tuīon-the-ground promotion (abbr. for 地面推广
• 外推wài tuīto extrapolate
• 助推器zhù tuī qì(rocketry) booster
• 外推法wài tuī fǎextrapolation (math.); to extrapolate
• 核推进hé tuī jìnnuclear propulsion
• 无罪推定wú zuì tuī dìngpresumption of innocence (law)
• 预期推理yù qī tuī lǐpredictive inference
• 经不起推究jīng bù qǐ tuī jiūdoes not bear examination
• 购物手推车gòu wù shǒu tuī chēshopping cart
• 介之推Jiè Zhī tuīJie Zhitui (7th century BC), legendary selfless subject of Duke Wen of Jin 晋文公
• 新产品推介会xīn chǎn pǐn tuī jiè huìproduct launch event
• 层压式推销céng yā shì tuī xiāopyramid scheme
• 兵推bīng tuīwar-gaming; simulation of a military operation (abbr. for 兵棋推演
• 沙盘推演shā pán tuī yǎnto plan a military mission on a sand table (idiom)…
• 硬推yìng tuīto shove

Characters built on 隹

These share the phonetic component 隹 (zhuī), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 堆duīto pile up; to heap up; a mass
• 锥zhuīcone; awl; to bore
• 崔cuī(literary) (of mountains) lofty
• 椎zhuī(bound form) vertebra
• 睢suīto stare
• 骓zhuī(literary) piebald horse
• 碓duìpestle; pound with a pestle

Characters that look like 推

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 维wéito preserve; to maintain; to hold together
• 雅yǎelegant
• 振zhènto shake; to flap; to vibrate
• 捣dǎoto pound; to beat; to hull
• 摒bìngto discard; to get rid of
• 雁yànwild goose

Sounds the same

Read tuī, tone for tone, but written differently.

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